About SGS:

What is SGS?

The MIT Strategic Games Society is a club devoted to playing many types of games, including board games, card games, and the occasional war game.

Why “Strategic”?

When first founded, SGS was focused on war games. Since then, it has evolved with its members interests to focus more on board games. Note that these are not “family” board games like Monopoly; we currently focus on more involved, higher-strategy games along the German model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-style_board_game).

Playing Games

Generally, SGS operates very informally. People show up, agree on a game to play, and off they go. If you're interested in learning a new game, either of these two procedures can work. If you just show up at an SGS meeting, members will be happy to teach you a game that they're going to play. You can also "advertise" through the SGS-members mailing list for a specific game.

You will generally do best if you are willing to play more games. Everyone has their favorites but learning new games is fun as well and being open to new games is the best attitude.

To recap a key point: no prior experience is necessary to join! We are very friendly to new people.

For more detailed information on SGS, look over the rest of the SGS web pages.